True Christians Love One Another

Brothers and sisters, if you do not love the followers of Jesus the Messiah, you have not passed from death to life. You are not born again. If you see this in yourself, you must go to the Savior, confess your sins and turn from them. Seek the Lord with all your heart and he will change you.

We make excuses for not loving one another, but this is not the heart of God or his children.

1 John 3 ISV

11This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12Do not be like Cain,i who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother’s actionsj were righteous. 13So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. 

• The person who does not lovek remains spirituallyl dead. 
• 15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life present in him. 
• 16This is how we have come to know love: the Messiahm gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers. 
• 17Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him? 
• 18Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must loven also in actiono and in truth. 
• 19This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and how we will be able to keep ourselvesp strong in his presence.

20If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. 21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God. 22Whatever we request we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 

23And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah,q and to love one another as he commanded us. 

24The person who keeps his commandments abides in God,r and God abides in him.s 

This is how we can be sure that he remains in us: he has given us his Spirit.

Remember these words from Paul to Timothy. Paul was seeing our day, as we are in the last of the last days. People love themselves, not others. 

1You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, 4traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 

5They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. 

6For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.7These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit. 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men,a their stupidity will be plain to everyone. 2 Timothy 3 ISV